The word "capitalism" wasn't coined until much later. That means two things: One, it doesn't uphold capitalism and Two, it doesn't disparage it. What is in the Constitution is fundamental rights. Capitalism is a consequence of individuals exercising those rights, up to the point where it infringes on the rights of others. Recognizing that is one of the things that made Theodore Roosevelt a great president. There is nothing un-American about wanting to reign in capitalism, but there is something decidedly un-American about wanting to destroy it wholesale, since as mentioned previously it arises from the exercise of natural rights. This is the much-hated nuance, particularly despised by the left, who seek to abolish capitalism; but also some on the right who have an agenda to give free reign to robber-barons and undo the works of T.R. and others.

You can actually plot improvement as measured by benchmark vs power consumption to train, and you see the power consumption curve upwards while the benchmarks seem to be asympote trending towards a specific limit. I've got a theory on it too. An LLMs basic fitness criteria is "Output text as close as possible to the training data". Well one thing that is NOT in the training data is text generated by anything smarter than a human. Because we've never seen an entity thats smarter than us. So the whole thing seems to be converging on a limit thats essentially 'one extremely well read human", and it has no data to tell it what something smarter than a human would look like.

All training further does is push that curve closer to the limit line, but it can never go above it. Theres a reason a lot of AI researchers are pretty adamant that the transformer LLM is probably not the final form of AI that can do the whole AGI superintelligence thing.

One strategy is, not touch any modules until they are at least, say, 72 hours old.

Until everyone else is doing that too, then you make it 168.

Some of these things I suspect are old Steve Jobs dogmas. Jobs also hated two button mice. Thankfully you could always turn on the context right click, but even to this day the right-click seems to be something you have to turn on in settings (Not that I've set up a fresh mac in aeons. Jobs hated the ergonomics of touchscreens on laptops.

While I get the reverence for Jobs inside apple. Maybe its time they moved on from him. Well except for the customer service thing. Customer service from apple was *excellent* under Jobs. When the iphone sdk first came out, I wrote an angry email to sjobs @ apple dot com about the waiting time for approvals and how a client was threatening to sue me for delaying the project launch. That night at like 2am I got a phone call from his personal assistant telling me that jobs had flipped his lid and was on a rampage wanting to know why my app had been sitting in a queue for 2 months. Gotta respect that commitment to customer service. Crazy bastard actually read his emails. Even I dont do that lol

... then that's probably as close to self correcting as you're going to get.

There is actually a lot of interest in peptides and HRT. And companies posting about it is in fact one of the sources of information. As are people replying to said companies, asking questions, calling BS on their claims, asking for sources, etc.

It is a long-standing Texas marketing campaign. I've listened to them yammering on about everyone in California moving to Texas since the 90s, when I moved to California. I'm sure they were doing it before then.

So of course they shouted from the rooftops when Oracle moved to Texas, but became remarkably coy about Oracle then moving from Texas to Tennessee. The Space Nazi also quietly moved a ton of people out after moving them there from California.

If you're actually curious and wish to align your intuition with reality, look at real numbers. You'll find the "California drain" is real - more people have been moving from California to Texas than the reverse for a while now. But California has been growing at a rate as to make that not matter. As far as their bullshit about taxes, Texas is indeed less tax-heavy on rich people, but taxes poor and middle class people significantly higher, like all southern states. And you might like the idea of their "not zoning" zoning. Unless you buy in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, in which case I hope you can find flood insurance.

For my part, I'd encourage MAGAtypes to do their part to convince more California billionaires to move to Texas. We have too many, and they're almost all snotty, whiny, annoying little shits.

... "he's right; it's not good to be so dependent on other countries."

Yeah, and if I'm not mistaken, the term was coined by the communists. Problematic, that.

Keep in mind that the "American Century" included nuclear nonproliferation. Which, to be sure, was already on life support. But it's dead now. We're all going to miss that.

It also included the US Navy guaranteeing freedom of navigation. We're going to miss that, too.

I agree with every word you just said, except one.

This will help the US economy, not hurt it. American businesses paying for a commodity as mundane as Microsoft Office, year after year, is an unnecessarily taxing parasitic drag. If this can be eliminated, all the better for every American.

(Well, except for the ones who own a piece of that one company, but fuck them.)

Nah, its all MacOS. Apple have been pushing the UIX for MacOS and IPad roughly in the same direction. I cant say I'm a fan of that (I'd rather the IPad be more Maclike than the other way around) but people seem to like it, so what do I know?

Oh, MacOS has been able to run IOS apps for a while now. Essentially IOS and MacOS have always shared the same XNU kernel (basically mashes together mach and FreeBSD kernel components with a custom API. And it was the userland libraries that differed. After porting the IOS userland over to MacOS that's allowed IOS apps to run unmodified on ARM based macs.

Personally I'd like to see Apple take away from the success of the Neo not that the mac should be made more IOSlike, but rather that the technology is ready for the next step where a user can carry around a phone, then place it into a dock somewhere and the phone becomes a mac. The only attempts I've seen at a similar idea where some of the Ubuntu-phone concepts, but I think the technology is now at a level where Apple, or Microsoft if they got off their arse and put the engineering hard work into it, could actually achieved it

Yeah earlier this year I brough my girlfriend a pretty base model Macbook M1 Air w/ 8gb, and about a week later my cat managed to damange the keyboard on my usual machine leaping onto it from a height, so I ended up using the M1 air for a couple of weeks as my work laptop while I waited for repairs and... it worked flawlessly? Keeping Jetbrains IntelliJ, microsoft word, and various terminals for logging into servers open, it ran it smoothly and even felt quite snappy. For sure the 8gb posed a few problems with large workloads, but for its intended use, my GF being able to read the net and use office suite for work. its great.

I'll probably buy her daughter one of the Neos for university, since she's been bugging me for a computer.

... given how many have left.

Ukraine is affecting their daily lives, by hitting their pocketbooks instead of wasting their attacks on "war crimes," i.e. hitting worthless targets which don't help end the war at all.

Murder a civilian and all you do is slightly sour their family against the war. Blow up an oil storage tank and you just made thousands of people have to suffer through inconvenience.

And worst of all, you heartlessly, viciously left them alive, where they'll remember how much poverty sucks, and they'll complain about it too. Good luck achieving that level of sadistic manipulation through mere murder.

Ex-superpower that can't afford it's lifestyle. Like the US will be in a few years if we don't sweep the idiots out of power.